An Intentional Life Planning Workbook
Earlier this year, I had the great honor of joining about 70 members of the Bend Chamber of Commerce’s Young Professional DevLabs program to lead them through a two-hour introduction to Intentional …
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In his seminal book “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” author and surgeon Atul Gawande writes about Stanford psychologist Laura L. Carstensen’s research, focusing on her hypothesis: …
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“You have 30 seconds to leave your message, so choose your words wisely.” This was the outgoing voicemail message of my children’s grandfather, Leo, a brilliant professor and writer who lived in San …
Last month, Amy and Jason Varga of Portland, both in their mid-40s and with kids 6 and 8 years old, booked a couples’ life planning weekend in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area using …
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In 2001, my wife and I wrote our first Intentional Life Plan. Five years out, we had jotted down: “Buy a farm.” We managed to accomplish the goal in 2005; this week, we celebrated our 15th year …
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We recently had an experience with a relative in which we didn’t know what their end-of-life wishes were. We weren’t sure if they had an advanced directive or power of attorney, or even who their …
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